[K12OSN] gdm auto-login

Daniel Bodanske daengbo at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 04:17:11 UTC 2007


Wow. That is a cool hack to get around using GDM for per-client
autologin. Back in the day, we always just caved in and used KDM,
which does it natively. Kudos to your initiative!

Dan

On 4/2/07, Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org> wrote:
> With autologin, a specific ID *must* be tied to a given client machine.
>     There are at least four documents on the wiki regarding autologin:
> Two under Technical, and two under Software.  I think the ones under
> Software are the most recent.  I just added this one a month or two ago:
>
> http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/A_more_complete_How-To_for_setting_up_autologin_of_clients_using_Gnome_%26_GDM
>
> It includes the very important patch to V5's gdm package which is needed
> to make autologin work.  Which document did you look at?
>
> Petre
>
> Barry Cisna wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> >   Could someone give me a link to a good gdm auto-login howto for V5 K12LTSP.
> > I seen there is a howto on the k12ltsp wiki but I can not get that setup
> > to log a specific user into a  specific terminal.
> > Id like to have the:
> >  ws001 auto login johndoe
> >  ws002 auto login janedoe
> >
> > etc,,,
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Barry Cisna
> >
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